Rosneft Builds Large Naphtha Cracker Complex in Russia's Far East

6:59 AM MST | December 1, 2011 | Natasha Alperowicz

Lummus Technology, a CB&I subsidiary, has been awarded a contract by CJSC Vostochnaya Neftechimicheskaya (VNHK), a subsidiary of OJSC Rosneft (Moscow) for the license and basic engineering of a naphtha steam cracking unit and a butadiene and benzene extraction unit for VNHK’s new petrochemical complex in Russia. The cracker will be designed to produce more than 1.4 million m.t./year of ethylene and more than 600,000 m.t./year of propylene, using the latest advances in the Lummus SRT-VII heater technology. The complex will also be designed to...